f C. BAUHINE, the _Sultan
Zambach_ of CLUSIUS, and the _Hortus Eystettensis_, as one of its
varieties also: MILLER regards this plant as a distinct species, and
those who have attentively examined the figures and descriptions of
CLUSIUS and the _Hort. Eyst._ will be of the same opinion.

The Lily increases most abundantly by offsets, hence it becomes
necessary that the bulbs should be taken up, and reduced every second or
third year; but the striped leaved variety increasing much more slowly,
should remain unmolested for a greater length of time.

There is scarcely a soil or situation in which the Lily will not grow,
it will thrive most in a soil moderately stiff and moist; though a
native of a warm climate no severity of weather affects it with us: we
may learn from this, not to regulate the culture of plants invariably by
the climate in which they grow spontaneously.

The best time for removing the bulbs of this plant is about the middle
of August, before they shoot forth their leaves; but they may be
transplanted any time from September to spring.

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PLUMERIA RUBRA. RED PLUMERIA.

_Class and Order._

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

Contorta. _Folliculi_ 2. reflexi. _Semina_ membranae propriae
inserta.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

PLUMERIA _rubra_ foliis ovato-oblongis, petiolis biglandulosis.
_Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 254._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p.
298._

PLUMERIA flore roseo odoratissimo. _Tourn. Inst. 659._ _Trew.
Ehret. Tab. xli._

_Plumeria_ is a genus of plants named by TOURNEFORT in honour of his
countryman the celebrated PLUMIER, it comes near to Nerium or Oleander,
and contains several species, all natives of warm climates.

The present plant is a native of Jamaica, where it is known by the name
of Red Jasmine, from whence seeds and large cuttings are often sent to
this country; here they require the stove to bring them to flower:
seed-vessels they are never known to produce.

The flowers, which are very odoriferous, are produced in July and August
in large bunches, on the summits of the branches, from whence the leaves
also proceed; the stems, which grow to a considerable height as well as
thickness, are naked, and the whole plant loses its foliage from the
middle of winter till about the beginning of May; the branches and other
parts of the plant, when broken off, give forth a milky jui